The Bush administration's position, that technology, private investment and economic growth - rather than mandatory emissions cuts - will save the planet from global warming, is taking a beating this week at a U.N. climate change conference in Indonesia.There's a slight problem with the current US position on this issue. If emissions have to be cut by a certain amount in order to save the planet from the disastrous effects of global warming, then the only way that "technology, private investment and economic growth" would be effective in combating global warming is if those efforts cut greenhouse emissions by at least as much as what the mandatory emissions cuts would require. And if "technology, private investment and economic growth" don't lower greenhouse emissions by at least as much as mandatory emissions cuts would require, then they are not going to be effective at combat global warming. Either way, as the rest of the industrialized world understands, the current US policy is completely bogus.
But then, you knew that.
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Bush has been using that trick since he was Gov of Texas. Talk a good talk without actually doing something about the issue.
Its hard not to look back at the aftermath of 9/11 and think of what could have been. We were collectively ready for change and sacrifice; we could have made a tremendous leap away from oil dependence; instead we squandered our moment...
Definitely, a lot of things should have been done after 9/11 that were not.
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